KimInsuaDe La CruzMD

Thoracic Surgery • San Antonio, TX

Adult Cardiac Surgery, Aortic Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery

Director of Aortic Surgery, Methodist Healthcare System of San Antonio / HCA Healthcare

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Office
Methodist Medical Plaza
4499 Medical Drive, Suite 120
San Antonio, TX 78229
Phone(210) 575-5506
Fax(210) 575-6120
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Summary

Dr. Kim de la Cruz is a cardiothoracic surgeon in San Antonio, TX and is affiliated with multiple hospitals of the Methodist Healthcare System in the area, including Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital. He received his medical degree from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and has been in practice for 17 years. He did thoracic surgery residency and aortic surgery fellowship at Texas Heart Institute / Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He specializes in aortic surgery, adult cardiac surgery, and cardiovascular surgery; and is experienced in aortic dissection, aortic surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, adult cardiac surgery, and thoracic transplant surgery.

Education & Training

Texas Heart Institute/Baylor College of MedicineFellowship, Cardiothoracic Surgery (Aortic Surgery), 2010 - 2011
Baylor College of MedicineResidency, Thoracic Surgery, 2007 - 2010
Brooklyn Hospital CenterResidency, General Surgery, 2002 - 2007
University of the Philippines College of MedicineClass of 2000

Certifications & Licensure

TX State Medical License 2008 - 2022
VA State Medical License 2007 - 2022
American Board of Thoracic Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Early Career Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care Baylor College of Medicine
Chief Award to an Outstanding Faculty Member for Outstanding Leadership and Training Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 2017
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Clinical Trials

Evaluation of the GORE® TAG® Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis (TBE Device) in the Treatment of Lesions of the Aortic Arch and Descending Thoracic Aorta (Zone 0/1) Start of enrollment: 2016 Aug 01Michael Dake, MD and Himanshu Patel, MD
Evaluation of the GORE® TAG® Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis (TBE Device) in the Treatment of Lesions of the Aortic Arch and Descending Thoracic Aorta (Zone 2) Start of enrollment: 2016 Aug 01Michael M Dake, MD and Himanshu Patel, MD
Medtronic Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Low Risk Patients Start of enrollment: 2016 Mar 01Jeffrey Popma, MD and Michael Reardon, MD
Effectiveness and Safety of CELSTAT for Hemostasis in Intraoperative Tissue Bleeding Start of enrollment: 2016 Mar 01Qing Li, MD
Portico Re-sheathable Transcatheter Aortic Valve System US IDE Trial Start of enrollment: 2014 May 01Raj Makkar, MD and Gregory Fontana, MD
Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery III Start of enrollment: 2014 Jan 01David Mazer, MD, Nadine Shehata, MD, Richard Whitlock, MD, Dean Fergusson, MD, and Kevin Thorpe, MSc
Study of GSK1278863 to Reduce Ischemic Events in Patients Undergoing Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 01GSK Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Is incidental splenectomy during thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair associated with reduced survival
Subhasis Chatterjee, Scott A. LeMaire, Susan Y. Green, Matt D. Price, Hiruni S. Amarasekara, Qianzi Zhang, Chris J. Pirko, Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, S. Rob...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020 Sep 1
Endovascular Repair of a Pseudoaneurysm After Multiple Open Repairs of Aortic Coarctation.
Alnasser, S. A., Vunnamadala, K. C., Preventza, O. A., Coselli, J. S., de la Cruz, K. I.> ;Texas Heart Institute journal. 2020 Jul 1
Proximal Descending Thoracic Aortic Pseudoaneurysm in a 24-Year-Old Man after 2 Childhood Repairs of Interrupted Aortic Arch.
Alnasser, S. A., Martin, A. H., Preventza, O. A., Coselli, J. S., de la Cruz, K. I.> ;Texas Heart Institute journal. 2020 Mar 10
Commentary: When time is brain-In type A aortic dissection, team approach prevails over cannulation strategy.
Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020 Mar 1
Commentary: In surgery for acute type A aortic dissection, follow the principles and do what you need to do
Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, Joseph S. Coselli> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020 Mar 1
Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair with a branched graft.
de la Cruz KI, LeMaire SA, Weldon SA, Coselli JS> ;Annals of cardiothoracic surgery.
Management of expanding aortic arch aneurysm after hybrid endovascular and debranching repair.
Spiliotopoulos K, Preventza O, de la Cruz KI, Coselli JS> ;European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery.
Early-Stage Acute Kidney Injury Adversely Affects Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Outcomes.
Subhasis Chatterjee, Scott A. LeMaire, Hiruni S. Amarasekara, Susan Y. Green, Matt D. Price, Matthew S. Yanoff, Qianzi Zhang, Rajeev Raghavan, Ourania Preventza, Kim I...> ;The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2019 Jun 1
Acute type I aortic dissection with or without antegrade stent delivery: Mid-term outcomes.
Preventza, O., Olive, J. K., Liao, J. L., Orozco-Sevilla, V., Simpson, K., Rodriguez, M. R., Price, M. D., Cheong, B. Y., Chatterjee, S., de la Cruz, K. I., Amarasekar...> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2019 Apr 9
Tracheostomy After Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Risk Factors and Outcomes.
Songdechakraiwut, T., Aftab, M., Chatterjee, S., Green, S. Y., Price, M. D., Preventza, O., de la Cruz, K. I., LeMaire, S. A., Coselli, J. S.> ;The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2019 Apr 1
Spinal cord deficit after 1114 extent II open thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs.
Coselli, J. S., Green, S. Y., Price, M. D., Zhang, Q., Preventza, O., de la Cruz, K. I., Whitlock, R., Amarasekara, H. S., Woodside, S. J., Perez-Orozco, A., LeMaire, ...> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2019 Mar 25
In the endovascular era, is elective open aortic arch surgery in elderly patients still justified?
Preventza, O., Price, M. D., Amarasekara, H. S., Orozco-Sevilla, V., Chatterjee, S., Zhang, Q., de la Cruz, K. I., Coselli, J. S.> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2019 Feb 10
The impact of preoperative chronic kidney disease on outcomes after Crawford extent II thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairs.
Joseph S. Coselli, Hiruni S. Amarasekara, Qianzi Zhang, Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, Subhasis Chatterjee, Matt D. Price, Susan Y. Green, Scott A. LeMaire> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2018 Dec 1
ECMO for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome After Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair.
Chatterjee, S., Mulvoy, W., Preventza, O., de la Cruz, K. I., LeMaire, S. A., Coselli, J. S.> ;The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2018 May 19
Redo Aortic Root Operations in Patients with Marfan Syndrome.
Vicente Orozco-Sevilla, Richard S Whitlock, Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, Joseph S. Coselli> ;International Journal of Angiology. 2018 May 17
Chronic Type I and Type III aortic dissections: a propensity analysis of outcomes after open distal repair.
Preventza, O., Price, M. D., Amarasekara, H. S., Tullos, A., Chen, P., Reidy, M. R., Pattakos, G., de la Cruz, K. I., Zhang, Q., Coselli, J. S.> ;European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery. 2018 Mar 7
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In elective arch surgery with circulatory arrest, does the arterial cannulation site really matter? A propensity score analysis of right axillary and innominate artery...
Preventza, O., Price, M. D., Spiliotopoulos, K., Amarasekara, H. S., Cornwell, L. D., Omer, S., de la Cruz, K. I., Zhang, Q., Green, S. Y., LeMaire, S. A., Rosengart, ...> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2018 Jan 18
The Stent Is Not to Blame: Lessons Learned With a Simplified US Version of the Frozen Elephant Trunk
Ourania Preventza, Joseph S. Coselli, Jessica Mayor, Katherine H. Simpson, Julius A. Carillo, Matt D. Price, Lorraine D. Cornwell, Shuab Omer, Kim I. de la Cruz, Faisa...> ;The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2017 Nov 1
Valve-sparing versus composite root replacement procedures in patients with Marfan syndrome.
Joseph S. Coselli, Scott A. Weldon, Ourania Preventza, Kim I. de la Cruz, Scott A. LeMaire> ;Annals of cardiothoracic surgery. 2017 Nov 1
Open descending thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic approaches for complications of endovascular aortic procedures: 19-year experience.
Spiliotopoulos, K., Preventza, O., Green, S. Y., Price, M. D., Amarasekara, H. S., Davis, B. M., de la Cruz, K. I., LeMaire, S. A., Coselli, J. S.> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2017 Sep 25
Repair of Intrapericardial Diaphragmatic Hernia during Aortic Surgery in a 78-Year-Old Woman.
Spiliotopoulos K, de la Cruz KI, Gkotsis G, Preventza O, Coselli JS> ;Texas Heart Institute journal. 2017-04-01
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The impact of temperature in aortic arch surgery patients receiving antegrade cerebral perfusion for >30 minutes: How relevant is it really?
Ourania Preventza, Joseph S. Coselli, Shahab Akvan, Sarang A. Kashyap, Andrea Garcia, Katherine H. Simpson, Matt D. Price, Jessica Mayor, Kim I. de la Cruz, Lorraine D...> ;The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2017 Apr 1
Financial and clinical outcomes of extracorporeal mechanical support.
Chiu R, Pillado E, Sareh S, De La Cruz K, Shemin RJ, Benharash P> ;Journal of cardiac surgery. 2017-02-08
Aortic root surgery with circulatory arrest: Predictors of prolonged postoperative hospital stay.
Preventza, O., Coselli, J. S., Garcia, A., Akvan, S., Kashyap, S., Simpson, K. H., Price, M. D., de la Cruz, K. I., Spiliotopoulos, K., Cornwell, L. D., Bakaeen, F. G....> ;The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. 2016 Dec 15
Open Repair of Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Patients 50 Years Old and Younger.
Coselli JS, Amarasekara HS, Green SY, Price MD, Preventza O, de la Cruz KI, Zhang Q, LeMaire SA> ;The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2016-12-06
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